Beechcraft T-34 Mentor....

This is a T-34 that belongs to the March Air Reserve Base Aero Club.  Photo by Scott Schwartz, all rights reserved.

Walter Beech designed the T-34 during the late 1940's, hoping that the Air Force would be interested in an economical, modern trainer to replace its war-surplus T-6 Texans.  The T-34 utilizes the basic structure of the early Bonanza models, hence the "family resemblance".   For more info. about the T-34, see my article at http://inflight.squarespace.com/aviation-ancestry/?currentPage=3